Word: ethereal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since then it has filled the ether with music, classical and otherwise, dramatic productions, and lectures by prominent professors and visitors on week nights throughout the College year, using the electrical system as a transmitting medium...
Your reference [TIME, March 10] to "a disc jockey in Charlotte, N.C."-without stating his name-is causing more heartaches locally than Ted Weems's recording ever dreamed of. The disc jockey, having access to twelve million pairs of ears via the ether waves, nightly pleads for each listener to write you to put his name in TIME. . . . Unless you do something soon to stop the clamor in the local press and radio station, you may expect an express collect package to arrive in your office soon. . . . It's my radio I'm. sending...
Then over the waves of ether To fill their sweet long dreams Come tales of terror and torture And 17 kinds of screams...
...story is accompanied by much searching of the upper ether where those heroic German ancestors, Goethe and Mozart, presumably dwell, and the Steppenwolf's dismal adventures evoke their cold immortal laughter...
Gangrene results from blood clots blocking circulation. Dr. Wirtschafter, taking his cue from a colleague's experiment, had first tried attacking gangrene with intravenous injections of ether. It seemed to work in some cases. Why? Probably because ether makes the blood vessels sensitive to histamine, a body chemical which improves blood first by dilating the blood vessels...